One thing that always bothered me about Star Wars after reading the Dark Horse comics all those years ago was how technology seemed to develop in an incredibly glacial pace even after thousands of years.
It forced me to eventually reconcile that Star Wars is not science fiction and cannot be science fiction but a high tech fantasy or space opera story set in space where technology plays a significant part in society but the people are not too concerned with its advancement.
In the same spirit, a story that takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away where anti gravity machines are common, telekinetic powers are commonplace, floating sky cities exist, interstellar ships can travel great distances as if they’re regular buses or planes, and invisible elements of nature can be used to affect physical reality and corporeal objects should not be held to the same laws of physics that shape our reality.
Once you can accept that it’s a story about space wizards with flashlights that can cut metal, and let go of the notion that the story should follows rules that govern our reality, it’s a lot easier to be immersed and enjoy what’s being presented to us.
Doesn’t mean the story can be without flaws, though. It wouldn’t be Star Wars without cringe dialogs and bad story telling with plot holes that get patched on the fly that’s been a fixture since 1977.
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